• Physicist Richard Feynman captured the difference in a well-turned phrase: "Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings. (hunterhastings.com)
  • Goldschmidt's determinations of the abundances of the elements, especially those with the "magic numbers" of neutrons, led to the systematic study of his results by physicists and chemists and ultimately to two Nobel Prizes far theories of the origin of the elements based on nuclear physics. (balzan.org)
  • But it does not matter whether you believe (or even understand) my arguments, you only have to look at the data to see that particle physicists' predictions for physics beyond the standard model have, in fact, not worked for more than 30 years. (blogspot.com)
  • Fast forward and it's evident that SunCHECK - a single interface and database offering a unified view of patient and machine QA, independent from the treatment system - is now established as the QA "engine-room" for Iridium Netwerk's distributed medical physics service. (sunnuclear.com)
  • That service, staffed by 17 medical physicists and six physics assistants, spans four geographically distributed clinical sites and a unified suite of Varian treatment systems (seven TrueBeam and three Clinac iX machines) delivering leading-edge cancer care to around 6000 patients every year. (sunnuclear.com)
  • Streamlined QA: the SunCHECK Quality Management Platform provides the QA "engine-room" for Iridium Netwerk's radiotherapy physics service, with 17 medical physicists and six physics assistants working across four clinical sites. (sunnuclear.com)
  • The quantum equivalent in economics and business is the growing recognition that numbers and equations and top-down command and control management have no place in a system composed of human factors not machine parts. (hunterhastings.com)
  • Tech giant, Intel has pledged $50 million (£33 million) to quantum computing research, which could ultimately give us a supercomputer unlike any machine we have known so far. (lifeboat.com)
  • A team of physicists has taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. (lifeboat.com)
  • So computer scientists have attempted to calculate the resources such a quantum computer might need and then work out how long it will be until such a machine can be built. (technologyreview.com)
  • In 2012, physicists used a four-qubit quantum computer to factor 143. (technologyreview.com)
  • It turns out that quantum factoring is much harder in practice than might otherwise be expected. (technologyreview.com)
  • Harold Urey's equally seminal contribution was his classic paper "The thermodynamic properties of isotopic substances", also published in 1947, in which he calculated the equilibrium separation factors for isotopes of the light elements in chemical reactions and solid-liquid-vapor phase equilibria, based on quantum mechanics and spectroscopic data on isotopic molecules. (balzan.org)
  • Practice has proved that the deformation of the CNC swiss machine after heating is an important reason that affects the machining accuracy. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • A relentless focus on workflow efficiency, standardization and automation has helped medical physicists at Iridium Netwerk transform patient and machine QA best practice across the healthcare group's multi-site radiation oncology programme in the Greater Antwerp region of Belgium. (sunnuclear.com)
  • A number of radiation accidents have occurred over the past 50 years involving radiation producing machines, radio- active materials, and uncontrolled nuclear reactors. (cdc.gov)
  • One machine has a disk diameter of 20 centimeters and delivers about 200 watts of power. (altenergy.org)
  • After the accidents, in 1988 AECL dissolved the AECL Medical section and the company Theratronics International Ltd took over the maintenance of the installed Therac-25 machines. (wikipedia.org)
  • You should consult with a medical physicist (See our Private Inspector list) regarding the X-ray machine specifications and shielding requirements for the X-ray room, and film storage area. (virginia.gov)
  • METHODS: The Brazilian Society for Radiation Oncology created a task force (RT2030) including physicians, medical physicists, policy makers, patient advocates, and suppliers, all of whom were major stakeholders involved in Brazilian radiotherapy care. (bvsalud.org)
  • The efficiency of this machine could be calculated using algebra and equations. (hunterhastings.com)
  • Dental machines must be inspected within the established frequency of 3 years. (virginia.gov)
  • My personal belief is that biologists tend to be uncompromising and reductionistic because they're still feeling somewhat insecure with their basic dogma, whereas physicists have three hundred years of secure foundation for their subject, so they can afford to be a bit more freewheeling in their speculation about these complex systems. (edge.org)
  • These two fields originated in the laboratories of Alfred O.C. Nier, a physicist at the University of Minnesota, and Harold C. Urey, a physical chemist of the University of Chicago, in the years immediately after the second World War. (balzan.org)
  • Since the late 1960s, when physicists hit on the "particle zoo" at nuclear energies, they always had a good reason to build a larger collider. (blogspot.com)
  • The NIST technique involves laser machining of a quartz rod (a common type of glass) to shape and polish a small, smooth disk within which light can circulate. (rdworldonline.com)
  • Scientists plan to apply for a patent on the machining technique, which could be applied to a variety of other glassy materials. (rdworldonline.com)
  • Indeed, computer scientists consider it practically impossible for a classical computer to factor numbers that are longer than 2048 bits, which is the basis of the most commonly used form of RSA encryption. (technologyreview.com)
  • After machining the quartz, NIST scientists use a small, low-power infrared laser to pump light into it. (rdworldonline.com)
  • Consequently, these machines are significantly closer to reality than anyone suspected. (technologyreview.com)
  • [14] However, with the increasing power of computers and other technologies, it might eventually be possible to build a machine that is significantly more intelligent than humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Education significantly impacted survival and HT usage, reflecting the influence of socioeconomic factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • and authorizes non-department qualified private inspectors to perform the evaluations and non-department service companies to install and repair the machines. (virginia.gov)
  • Any x-ray machine that is determined to be unsafe for human use is restricted from use until the x-ray machine is repaired by a service company, and re-inspected by a Virginia Radiological Health Specialist , or permanently removed from service. (virginia.gov)
  • Sheet metal, Copper Milling , carbon steel, online laser cutting service , 3D printing, precision CNC machining services for heavy equipment, construction, agriculture and hydraulic industries. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • Likewise the operators of the machine should review manufacturer's operating and safety instructions before patient use. (virginia.gov)
  • SunCHECK Patient adds an extra dimension to patient QA, revealing a wide variety of deviations spanning errors in planning, machine problems, patient positioning, and changes in patient anatomy such as weight loss, tumour shrinkage or rectal/bladder filling. (sunnuclear.com)
  • The old worldview was Newton's: that the universe was a machine, its motion and planetary interactions governed by unbreakable mathematical laws. (hunterhastings.com)
  • This mechanistic view extended to all of natural and human life - whatever we examine, we look at it as a machine and try to figure out how it "works", how the parts into which we can reduce the machine function together, and how it can be tuned for better performance. (hunterhastings.com)
  • We could only partly use the concepts of conventional physical terminology in order to explain and define the functions and properties of the various parts of the machine. (altenergy.org)
  • Make sure you have adequate space for the machine, operator's booth, film processor, film processing chemicals, and film storage. (virginia.gov)
  • Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicists at NIST can now make the core of a miniature frequency comb in one minute. (rdworldonline.com)
  • Taking this into account dramatically increases the resources required to factor 2048-bit numbers. (technologyreview.com)
  • Such an AI is referred to as Seed AI [16] [17] because if an AI were created with engineering capabilities that matched or surpassed those of its human creators, it would have the potential to autonomously improve its own software and hardware to design an even more capable machine, which could repeat the process in turn. (wikipedia.org)
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates the manufacture of diagnostic X-ray machines for human use. (virginia.gov)
  • In his Zollikon Seminars, Heidegger questions the tribute paid by the sciences of the mind to the logic of the natural sciences, and stresses that Freud, by thinking of the mind as a machine driven by instinctive powers, assigns to human phenomena the objective features set by the natural sciences. (bvsalud.org)
  • The file should be cited as follows: Current Population Survey March 1991 {machine readable data file}/ conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • They were designed to induce hallucinations, to operate like a time machine that brought you back to a moment of powerful feeling - pried open your eyes and allowed you to witness that scene as it actually comes to exist in your mind. (echovar.com)
  • Numerically controlled swiss machine is affected by the change of workshop environment temperature, motor heating and mechanical movement friction heating, cutting heat and cooling medium, resulting in uneven temperature rise of each part of the machine tool, leading to changes in the machine tool shape accuracy and machining accuracy. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • the core-type CNC lathe itself will consume energy when it is working, and a considerable part of this energy will be converted into heat in various ways, causing physical changes in the various components of the machine tool. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • The designer of CNC machine tools should master the heat formation mechanism and temperature distribution law, and take corresponding measures to minimize the impact of thermal deformation on machining accuracy. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • Particle physicists had a good case to build the LHC with the prediction of the Higgs-boson. (blogspot.com)
  • Alfred Nier studied both stable and radiogenic isotopes, particularly the isotopes of lead (which led to the first precise age of the earth) and invented a simple but precise mass spectrometer in 1947 which become the machine that revolutionized geochemistry. (balzan.org)
  • Within this larger machine were smaller component machines called firms, which combined capital and labor and technology in smaller and distinctive ways to contribute to total output. (hunterhastings.com)
  • For another example, a precision double-end grinding machine for double-end grinding of thin steel sheet workpieces with a thickness of 0.6~3.5mm can reach the dimensional accuracy of mm when processing 200mm×25mm×1.08mm steel sheet workpieces at the time of acceptance. (cncmachining.wiki)
  • The quality factor-Q factor, which is a measure of the length of time light circulates inside the cavity without leaking out-equals or exceeds that of cavities made by other methods. (rdworldonline.com)
  • All have verified the overunity claims without fully understanding how the machines actually work. (altenergy.org)
  • To the educated physicist, the capabilities of this machine may seem impossible, maybe even crazy. (altenergy.org)
  • It was also more economical for a hospital to have a dual machine that could apply treatments of electrons and X-rays, instead of two machines. (wikipedia.org)
  • A primary benefit of the high Q factor is that only a few milliwatts of laser light are required to generate a comb. (rdworldonline.com)
  • Before his untimely death in the summer of 1997, Marinov described two of the machines in his review of the M-L Converter. (altenergy.org)
  • These machines were "managed" for high performance - organized as hierarchical command-and-control structures where the managers at the top who had all the equations and plans and visions instructed and directed the lower orders on how they should act. (hunterhastings.com)
  • The economy was viewed as a machine, churning out a numerical output identified as GDP. (hunterhastings.com)
  • Engineers comparing energy rates state that the apparent energy output has an over-unity factor of about twenty. (altenergy.org)
  • The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with Compagnie générale de radiologie (CGR) of France). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Therac-25 was designed as a machine controlled by a computer, and some safety mechanisms switched from hardware to software. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because of the controversy behind free energy machines, the Methernitha group has been, at times, reclusive about their energy machines. (altenergy.org)
  • VDH will provide the facility a decal to place on the X-ray machine and issue a facility identification number and tube number. (virginia.gov)
  • These machines are far more powerful than classical computers and should be able to break these codes with ease. (technologyreview.com)